Posts Tagged ‘reverse discrimination/racism’

“The Perfect Storm for White Anxiety,” excerpt, OSI event, Baltimore, MD 12/1/09

Tim Wise discusses the “Perfect Storm for White Anxiety,” and its effect on race relations in the U.S. Excerpt from Open Society Institute event, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD, December 1, 2009

“Disliking Obama over his Race” on CNN’s What Matters, 9/25/09

HLN’s Richelle Carey takes a look at why people dislike the President. Is it because of his policy or race?

“President Obama and Race” on CNN, 9/17/09

How should the obama administration handle race and politics? CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield explores.

“Harsh Words Aimed at President” on CNN, 9/13/09

Author Tim Wise talks to CNN’s Don Lemon about the role race appears to play in opposition to President Obama.

The Afrikaner Party Draws First Blood: Van Jones, Barack Obama and the Audacity of Capitulation

Van Jones, special advisor to the President’s Council on Environmental Quality, has resigned from the administration. To be honest, he was forced out. Oh, perhaps not directly, but if not, then by the stunning silence of his employer. An employer more concerned about appeasing the right-wing bullies who sought to make Jones a liability for [...]

Fact-Checking and Correcting Rush Limbaugh (Or, Reflections on the Easiest Thing I’ll Do All Day)

Today is a glorious day indeed. First, our youngest daughter began kindergarten this morning, amidst great excitement and enthusiasm, and was walked to her classroom by her big sister (in 2nd grade), who felt especially “adult” for getting to do that, I’m sure. And secondly, because yesterday afternoon, Rush Limbaugh attacked me on air. The [...]

Racism, Right-Wing Rage and the Politics of White Nostalgia

“How dare you say this is about racism!” And a pleasant Monday to you too sunshine, I thought, as I stared at my computer screen this morning, reading over the first e-mail of the day. It was from someone who had apparently seen my presentation on CNN last night, in which I explained why racism [...]

Sick Heil: Racial Paranoia, White Victimology and the Hitlerizing of Obama

If you get a chance, today or perhaps tomorrow, do yourself a favor. Look up some file footage, perhaps on YouTube, of Adolf Hitler, addressing his followers. I know, it doesn’t sound like the best way to spend your day, or even a few minutes of it, but trust me, there’s a point to the [...]

Harpooning the Great White Wail: Reflections on Racism, the Supreme Court and Right-Wing Buffoonery

For a group that regularly decries what they view as “minority” whining, and the politics of victimization, white conservatives are demonstrating a penchant for the unhinged histrionics of victimhood, virtually unparalleled in modern times. Facing a nation led by a black man, with a black wife and black children, sullying the hallowed halls of a [...]

Plaintiff Wail: Ricci v. DeStefano and the Myth of White Victimhood

As a general rule, one should regard with a mountain of salt anything to be found on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Committed to the promotion of right-wing economics and social policy, and unburdened by such mundane requirements as fact checking, the writers of the Journal’s daily screeds have long taken liberty [...]